You could be forgiven for thinking Uncle Sam is trying to raise a zombie army. The United States Selective Service accidentally mailed out 14,000 draft registration notices to men from Pennsylvania born between 1893 and 1897. The notifications ordered them to sign up for military draft and warned that not doing so is “punishable by a fine and imprisonment.”
Turns out, a clerk at the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation hadn’t selected a century when trying to get records for men born between 1993 and 1997. “We made a mistake, a quite serious selection error,” a spokeswoman said. Read more at The Washington Post.
{Andy Heller-Matzav.com Newscenter}
Going after highly experienced veterans–good strategy.
What penalty for wasting money on this stupid error?
Why are draft notices being sent out at all? There is no longer a draft in the US!
Groan. The bones will have much to say about this in the future of the world to come! Creepy Creepy Creepy Funny.